Power amplifying method, power amplifier, and communication apparatus

a technology of power amplifier and amplifier, which is applied in the direction of amplifier modification to reduce non-linear distortion, gain control, transmission, etc., can solve the problem of not being able to have a large suppressing amount of distortion on both acpl and acpu

Inactive Publication Date: 2004-05-06
PANASONIC CORP
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Consequently, it is not possible to have a large suppressing amount of distortion on both of ACPL and ACPU.

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embodiment 1

[0146] FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a power amplifier according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. In FIG. 1, the power amplifier comprises an input terminal 101, an output terminal 102, a baseband part 103, a digital-analog (hereinafter, referred to as D / A) converters 104 and 109, an orthogonal modulator 105, an amplifier 106 serving as an example of amplifying means of the present invention, a power divider 107, an inverted envelope generating circuit 108 serving as an example of inverted envelope generating means of the present invention, a variable delay circuit 110 serving as an example of first phase adjusting means of the present invention, a gain variable amplifier 111 serving as an example of first amplitude adjusting means of the present invention, a low-pass filter 112, a signal level detector 113 serving as an example of first level detecting means of the present invention, a control circuit 114, and a local oscillator 115. For the gain variable amplifier 111...

embodiment 2

[0167] FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing a power amplifier according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention. In FIG. 8, the same components as those of Embodiment 1 are indicated by the same reference numerals as FIG. 1. Only different points from Embodiment 1 will be discussed below.

[0168] In Embodiment 1, an inverted envelope component is generated by inputting digital IQ signals generated in the baseband part 103 to the inverted envelope generating circuit 108. The present embodiment is different in that the functions of an inverted envelope generating circuit and a D / A converter are included in a baseband part 403. The other configurations are the same as those of Embodiment 1.

[0169] The operating principle of the present embodiment is the same as Embodiment 1, so that the same effect as Embodiment 1 can be obtained. Further, the plurality of functions are included in the baseband part 403 of one package, so that a smaller size can be achieved as compared with Embodiment 1.

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embodiment 3

[0176] FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing a power amplifier according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention. In FIG. 9, reference numeral 121 denotes a power divider, reference numeral 122 denotes an envelope detector, and reference numeral 123 denotes a sign inversion circuit. The other same components as those of Embodiment 1 are indicated by the same reference numerals as FIG. 1. The envelope detector 122 and the sign inversion circuit 123 correspond to an other structural example of inverted envelope generating means of the present invention. As with Embodiment 1, for example, the circuit of FIG. 2 is used for an amplifier 106 and a transistor such as a bipolar transistor is used for a gain variable amplifier 111. A control circuit 114 is constituted of, for example, a memory (storage device) such as a ROM.

[0177] In FIG. 9, an input terminal 101 is connected to the input of the power divider 121, and one end of the output of the divider 121 is connected to the input of the amp...

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A power amplifier comprises an amplifier of amplifying a high-frequency signal modulated by an input signal, an inverted envelope generating circuit generating an inverted envelope signal by using the input signal or the high-frequency signal, the inverted envelope signal having an inverted envelope, a gain variable amplifier adjusting amplitude of the inverted envelope signal, a variable delay circuit adjusting a phase of the inverted envelope signal, and a control circuit outputting a control signal to the gain variable amplifier and the variable delay circuit based on information about distortion or a signal level of the amplified high-frequency signal. The inverted envelope signal having been adjusted in amplitude or phase is injected to the high-frequency signal or the amplified high-frequency signal, and the control circuit controls the gain variable amplifier or the variable delay circuit so that distortion or a signal level of the amplified high-frequency signal is minimum.

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[0001] 1. Field of the Invention[0002] The present invention relates to a power amplifier, a power amplifying method, and a power amplifier with predistortion compensation, and specifically concerns a power amplifier, a power amplifying method, and a power amplifier with predistortion compensation that are used mainly at radio communication base stations of mobile phones and so on, can amplify a signal, and can reduce distortion occurring during amplification.[0003] 2. Related Art of the Invention[0004] In recent years, for transmitters used in base stations of radio communication apparatuses, high-efficiency power amplifiers with high linearity have been demanded to amplify a number of signal channels in a collective manner. In order to increase the linearity of power amplifiers, for example, it is necessary to adopt distortion compensating circuits of a predistortion system or the like.[0005] FIG. 29 is a block diagram showing a conventional power amplifier with predistortion comp...

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IPC IPC(8): H03F1/32H03F3/60
CPCH03F1/32H03F3/60H03F1/3229
InventorMATSUYOSHI, TOSHIMITSU
OwnerPANASONIC CORP